Kodak loses another patent battle to RIM & Apple

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21 May 2012, 15:57posted on

Preliminary findings from the ITC have come back regarding patent 218. As a refresher, U.S. Patent No. 6,292,218 is for an “electronic camera for initiating capture of still images while previewing motion images..

um, so this is a patent that was thrown out to "obviousness" but Apple's little patent that got HTC's phones blocked by customs was okay? If this is not a case of Apple fanboyism in the legal court systems, I don't know what is.

Having lived in Rochester NY all my life, Much of my family had worked for Kodak. My Father retired in '82 after 35 years. The management may have given the company a bad rap lately, but the bottom line is that many hardworking employees such as my Dad, Aunts, Uncles, etc(some which were in the chemical and engineering/ research/ developement teams), helped make Kodak the giant it was.

It saddens me that companies that had no experience in imaging, waltz in and financially fruiten the legal system. So what if the 3Gs is not for sale. Does Kodak not deserve to be compensated for the infringment that made Apple rich during this time?

I really have lost respect for our patent system and the court system that overlooks that "obvious" flaw in regulating what is patentable and what isn't.

So according to the court I can rip off someones idea, make billions of dollars doing it and as long as I've stopped selling it by the time it reaches the courts its OK. Because I've obviously done nothing wrong.

According to the way it was written, it appears that is exactly what Apple did. The one patent may not have been the sole money maker, but the point is, that someone's research and developement went into some other product that made tons of cash and the company that it was taken from made nothing. Zilch. Zero.

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